[linux-audio-dev] Denormal numbers

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Aug 3 14:57:00 UTC 2003


On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:14:25 +0300, Jussi Laako wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:45, Alfons Adriaensen wrote:
> > Do you know of a *very fast* (probably inline assembly) way to force
> > denormal FP numbers to zero ?
> 
> If I remember correctly, SSE does flush-denormals-to-zero by default.

Yes, I think thats correct, but I got a performace penalty when I've tried
telling gcc to produce SSE code instead of 387.

I should play with it somemore, its possibel that you can tell the 387 to
ignore the exceptions.

- Steve



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